The second branch was, _If he be found in his hands, he surely shall be put to death_. This is the third and fourth clause of the before cited verse in _Exod._ _If he be found in his hands_. This is to be understood in two senses, either found in the Ship-master’s hands who stole him, or bought, as he says, or in the person’s hands who purchases him. As to the first of these senses in which this passage may be taken, if the laws of GOD, yea, even of man, were to be put into execution, he, the stealer, or even the buyer, would be punished with death, for it is clear as to Man-stealing, that it deserves death, by the above passage of Scripture, and it is no less with regard to buying: But why do I say buying? For no money can be equal to the worth of a man: Buying, I admit that word because Ship-masters and others in this Trade, say, for their justification that they purchased the Negroes, but as there are no laws, either of GOD or man, for the buying and stealing of _Africans_, I am inclined to think it cannot be supposed, but they justly deserve death. And in the second sense, the man who buys the _Africans_ or Negroes is full as culpable as the stealer, and liable to the same punishment, for Scripture does not point out particularly either of them, but only just, _If he be found in his hands_, that is, in any man’s hands, so that it can be proved he stole or bought him, _he surely shall be put to death_. The third part was, _He that buyeth a Servant and serveth him six years, shall set him free the seventh, and furnish him liberally with what he hath_. The first part of this branch is proved in three different texts, _viz._ _Exod._ xxi. 2. _Deut._ xv. 12. and _Jer._ xxxiv. 14. In all which parts it is expressly mentioned, _That if an_ Hebrew _Servant be sold unto thee_, or if you buy him he _shall serve thee six years, and the seventh, thou shall let him go free from thee_, that is, he shall pay nothing for his Liberty.